Intraspecific crop diversity for enhanced crop pollination success. A review

S Chabert, M Eeraerts, LW DeVetter, M Borghi… - Agronomy for …, 2024 - Springer
Interspecific crop diversity (eg, intercrop**) has been documented to promote
sustainability in agroecological systems with benefits for pollination services and insect …

The final frontier: ecological and evolutionary dynamics of a global parasite invasion

NC Chapman, T Colin, J Cook… - Biology …, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Studying rapid biological changes accompanying the introduction of alien organisms into
native ecosystems can provide insights into fundamental ecological and evolutionary theory …

Smart orchard design improves crop pollination

M Anders, I Grass, VMG Linden… - Journal of Applied …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
More sustainable and environmentally friendly agricultural practices, including ecological
intensification, are needed to reduce biodiversity loss and environmental degradation. We …

Boron effects on fruit set, yield, quality and paternity of macadamia

AL De Silva, W Kämper, HM Wallace, SM Ogbourne… - Agronomy, 2022 - mdpi.com
Many tree crops experience sub-optimal yields and low fruit quality due to inadequate
pollination, low fruit set, and poor crop nutrition. Boron (B) is a critical crop nutrient for fruit …

Outcrossing rate and fruit yield of Hass avocado trees decline at increasing distance from a polliniser cultivar

SJ Trueman, J Nichols, MB Farrar, HM Wallace… - Agronomy, 2024 - mdpi.com
Optimal fruit production from many tree crops relies on the transfer of cross-pollen between
trees of different cultivars rather than the transfer of self-pollen between trees of the same …

Flower visitors, levels of cross-fertilisation, and pollen-parent effects on fruit quality in mango orchards

W Kämper, J Nichols, TD Tran, CJ Burwell, S Byrnes… - Agronomy, 2023 - mdpi.com
Pollination is essential for the reproductive output of crops. Anthropogenic disturbance and
global pollinator decline limit pollination success, reducing the quantity or quality of pollen …

High outcrossing levels among global macadamia cultivars: Implications for nut quality, orchard designs and pollinator management

SJ Trueman, MG Penter, KS Malagodi-Braga, J Nichols… - Horticulturae, 2024 - mdpi.com
Global fruit and nut yields are affected by shortfalls in pollinator populations, and pollen
limitation is most prevalent among tropical, bee-pollinated and self-incompatible plants …

Pollinator, pollen, and cultivar identity drive crop quality

T Tscharntke, C Ocampo-Ariza, W Kämper - Trends in Plant Science, 2024 - cell.com
Animal pollination enhances a third of global food production, yet the roles of pollinator,
pollen, and cultivar identity in sha** crop quality, such as nutritional, sensory, and …

Complementary effects of pollination and biocontrol services enable ecological intensification in macadamia orchards

M Anders, C Westphal, VMG Linden… - Ecological …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
In many crops, both pollination and biocontrol determine crop yield, whereby the relative
importance of the two ecosystem services can be moderated by the landscape context …

Determining Pollinizer Success Rates among Several Apple (Malus domestica L.) Cultivars Using Microsatellite Markers

F Gasi, N Pojskić, BK Stroil, O Frøynes, M Fotirić Akšić… - Agronomy, 2023 - mdpi.com
In order to determine the pollinizer success rates between twelve apple cultivars in 2021
and 2022, 671 apple embryos were collected from 19 different orchards in Ullensvang …